Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Photography: Google Earth

Technology Review (a technical magazine published by MIT) has an excellent article on the technology behind Google Earth - the satellites, the airplanes, the corrections (filtering), elevation mapping, data streaming, et al.
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  1. RodsbotWednesday, October 24, 2007 at 9:31:00 AM EDT

    Here is some amazing google earth sights.

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  2. AnonymousThursday, October 25, 2007 at 6:12:00 AM EDT

    Although it doesn't get as much press mileage, for places in the UK, the images are way crisper in Microsoft's offering (http://maps.live.com/).

    Balances out for how bad Vista is I guess ;)!

    cheers
    -a.a

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